PhysX eGPU adaptors?

[Álvaro]

I was reading a bit due to PhysX, in general, being the major fps hog in the games I have played lately (Warframe, Fallout 4, Borderlands TPS, XCOM 2...) and wondered if, with the recent flow of thunderbolt 2 eGPU cases, would be possible to use an external GPU for PhysX only (which means I could do with a cheaper one, and also not saturate the 40GB/s bandwidth of Thunderbolt unlike having that card as my main render), as usually without PhysX I cap the frames in any game I play currently on my laptop with everything maxed out, simmilar to having a dedicated PhysX card on a desktop. I have a p775DM1 (the Octane LE), as per my signature, which has a single Type 2 Thunderbolt port which is currently empty. Anyone has experience with eGPUs on Clevo machines?. I am running the last PCS bios, the 1.05.09 if I am correct.

 

[Wozza63]

I don't think it's really worth buying an external GPU case (which is expensive) and a GPU just to use PhysX. You should be able to just turn it off, which in my opinion is the better option. PhysX looks cool, but is not game changing.

 

[Álvaro]

That had been my approach till now (in particular for Borderlands, that thing is insane how much it wrecks FPS), so I guess I'll stick with it unless eGPU prices plummet (i.e ,probably a lot of time)
Also, your reply telling me that PhysX is not worth it with your profile pic made my day so much.